Underland: A Deep Time Journey

Clearly this one belongs to the Macfarlane's Landscape and the Human Heart series as well. I really love his writing: lyrical but never soppy, mystical but scientific, hardy but always enchanting. It's about nature, about adventures, and always about humanity and humanity's fascination with the places at the edges. Here he goes cave spelunking, visits underground dark-matter observatories, explores the under city of Paris (so good!), dives into glacier abysses and explores hidden mushroom networks with [a:Merlin Sheldrake 19472946 Merlin Sheldrake https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1604091484p2/19472946.jpg]. to shelter what is precious, to yield what is valuable, and to dispose of what is harmfulMy only complaint would be, that after spending such exciting and claustrophobic hours under ground in the Mendips, Paris and Slovenia's highland, there was potentially too much above-ground action in the last third of the book. First with [b:Mountains of the Mind 839157 Mountains of the Mind A History of a Fascination Robert Macfarlane https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1332295436l/839157.SY75.jpg 824717] and now Underland, I am officially a Robert Macfarlane fan.